What did the mandate have to do with anything?
Everything as it was the mandate that was responsible for the partitioning of the land into 5 nations, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, trans Jordan and Israel. all agreed by the arab leaders who acquired their pound of flesh. It was the arabs that reneged on the treaties they signed as part of the mandate and wanted all the land for themselves. The British should have cut of all supplies to the mandated countries and called in the LoN to assist in quelling the rebellious arab muslims. Flooding the mandate with troops prepared to shoot at the first sing of any insurrection, and arresting the leaders on charges of treason and being in breach of International Law.
You do realize that absolutely nothing you have written has a basis in fact.
If you read the source documents you may be able to better understand what all the disagreement is about. The Mandate is not a long document. The key sentence in the document is the following:
"Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers,
in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country; and..."
So, first of all, the Mandate for Palestine has nothing to do with anything but Palestine, nothing to do with 5 nations. Secondly, it clearly states that yes, there was a desire to establish a Jewish "home" IN Palestine. Notice, it does not say state, country or anything of the like. Thirdly, the creation of a "Jewish Home" IN Palestine was not to " prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine"
So, can you understand why the Christians and Muslims might just be a little chagrined?
Read the source document here:
The Avalon Project : The Palestine Mandate